GMDS 19908L meets at 7pm every Wednesday night during the semester in Scovel 105 to watch and discuss a film. See the film schedule with links and accompanying worksheets below.
Week 1 – Wednesday 8/19
- Lumière, Workers Leaving the Factory (1895) – here on YouTube
- Lumière, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1895) – here on YouTube
- Alice Guy, The Cabbage Fairy (1900) – here on YouTube
- The Great Train Robbery: And Other Early Short Films selections – here on Kanopy
- Eadweard Muybridge’s primitive motion studies (1877-85)
- Louis and Auguste Lumière early films (1895 and following)
- Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscopes (1894-97) (serpentine dances, a cockfight, a bedroom full of seminary girls engaged in a pillow fight and the notorious first screen kiss)
- Georges Méliès, A Trip To The Moon (1902)
- Edwin S. Porter, The Great Train Robbery (1903)
- Worksheet for The Great Train Robbery: And Other Early Short Films
Week 2 – Wednesday 8/26
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari – here on Kanopy
- Dir. Robert Wiene
- 1922, Germany
- 77 mins.
- Worksheet for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Week 3 – Wednesday 9/2
- The Gold Rush – here on Kanopy
- Dir. Charlie Chaplin
- 1925, US
- 89 mins. (the original silent version)
- Worksheet for The Gold Rush
Week 4 – Wednesday 9/9
- It Happened One Night – here on Primo
- Dir. Frank Capra
- 1934, USA
- 105 mins.
- Worksheet for It Happened One Night
Week 5 – Wednesday 9/16
- Grand Illusion – here on some random website
- Dir. Jean Renoir
- 1937, France
- 114 mins
- Worksheet for Grand Illusion
Week 6 – Wednesday 9/23
- Umberto D. – here on Kanopy
- Dir. Vittorio de Sica
- 1952, Italy
- 88 mins
- Worksheet for Umberto D.
Week 7 – Wednesday 9/30
- Gilda – here at Internet Archive
- Dir. Charles Vidor
- 1946, US
- Starring Rita Hayworth, Glen Ford, Charles Macready
- 110 mins
- Worksheet for Gilda
Fall Break
No film this week – have a great break! And get out to the movies if you have a chance
Week 8 – Wednesday 10/14
- Watch Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) – Here on Kanopy
- Dir. Satyajit Ray
- India, 1955
- 125 mins.
- Worksheet for Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road)
Week 9 – Wednesday 10/21
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg – here on Kanopy
- Dir. Jacques Demy, France, 1964
- With Catherine Deneuve as Geneviève and Nino Castelnuovo as Guy
- Music by Michel Legrand
- Worksheet for the Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Week 10 – Wednesday 10/28
The Great Train Robbery: And Other Early Short Films – here on Kanopy
Week 11 – Wednesday 11/4
The Great Train Robbery: And Other Early Short Films – here on Kanopy
Week 12 – Wednesday 11/11
The Great Train Robbery: And Other Early Short Films – here on Kanopy
Week 13 – Wednesday 11/18
The Great Train Robbery: And Other Early Short Films – here on Kanopy
Thanksgiving
No film – have a great break!
Week 14 – Wednesday 12/2 (last day of classes)
The Great Train Robbery: And Other Early Short Films – here on Kanopy